Whiteness Quotes

53 quotes by 47 authors

When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates,… — Amanda Holden
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth,… — John Keats
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity? — Noel Ignatiev
Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . . .… — Noel Ignatiev
Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.… — Khalil Gibran
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear. — Dogen
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as â€œgoodâ€ minorities and African Americans are represented as â€œbadâ€ minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian… — Jennifer Lee
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means… — James H. Cone
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are â€œuniversally accepted.â€ — Manning Marable
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world… — Heidi Julavits
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what… — Kara Walker
The Nazis played the same games against Jews that todayâ€™s left plays against 'Eurocentrism,' 'whiteness,' and 'logocentrism.' When you hear a campus radical denounce 'white… — Jonah
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts… — Isaac Newton
We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then… — Anatoly Berezovoy
People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They… — Anne Ursu
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater… — Bell Hooks
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are… — Bell Hooks

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